OVERVIEW

Planning and reporting community benefit are key functions of Catholic-sponsored and other not-for-profit health care organizations. The Catholic Health Association, the leader in the community benefit field for 20 years, offers a one-and-a-half day seminar for new community benefit professionals that covers the basics of community benefit programming.

OBJECTIVES

At this event, participants will learn:

• How community benefit demonstrates the organizational mission.
• The latest news on tax exemption/community benefit issues at the federal and state levels.
• Steps for developing and implementing community benefit programs.
• Policies needed to support community benefit programs.
• What counts and doesn’t count as community benefit.
• Community benefit accounting principles.
• How best to tell the community benefit story.
• How to get started.

All participants will receive a copy of CHA’s A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit, 2008 Edition.

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Many factors influence the health and well-being of a community, and one can measure health in many ways. This session offers a case example in: conducting a community health needs assessment; building community capacity and strengthening partnerships among hospitals, public health and community organizations; and moving from assessment of needs to action for solutions through the creation of a community health improvement plan. (more…)

ACHI has several educational webinars available yet this year.  To find out more, visit their website